Monday, February 4, 2013

The AICEIA has communicated to the Board its expectations from the proposed scheme to grant in-situ promotions to Inspectors based on length of service. All these issues were also represented in detail, in person, before the Member(P&V), DG [DGHRD] and ADG[HRM] last month.

Kindly recall that over the past several years this
Association has repeatedly been raising the demand for time bound promotions
on completion of 8, 15 and 23 years of service (from the date of joining in the
cadre of Inspector of Central Excise), and consideration of seniority in the
base cadre (Inspector of Central Excise/ Preventive Officer/ Examiner) while effecting promotions to the Gr B
Gazetted and further to the Gr A posts, in order to maintain batch-wise parity within
and among the three cadres in promotions. This position is reiterated.

2.
Without prejudice to the above, it
is submitted that any scheme (as the one presently informed to be under active
consideration of the CBEC) formulated to address the abysmal situation of
stagnation being faced by Inspectors of Central Excise should be a continuing one, and it must also
simultaneously address the wide regional
disparities plaguing the cadre, besides affording gazetted status to the beneficiaries. In
other words, it should necessarily include a dispensation where at least the
date of promotion under the scheme should be reckoned for further advancements
in their careers, the inter-se seniority of all such officers promoted en masse
being determined by their respective seniority positions as Inspectors.

3.
It is requested that this
Association’s views must be taken on board while giving final shape to any
scheme affecting the cadre it represents.

4. It is also submitted that a scheme to
promote all Inspectors of Central Excise who have completed 8 years of service,
as detailed with all relevant facts, figures and justifications, in this
Association’s letters submitted under F. No. AICEIA/CBEC/2012/UPGRADATION dated
04.10.12 and 08.01.13 would be more effective in resolving the twin inequities
of stagnation and regional disparity in promotion confronting the Inspectors’
cadre. The same is amply justified on account of minimal financial outgo, an
established precedent being available of a similar exercise undertaken by the
Board in 1996, and the functional aspects that presently obtain in the
Department also tilting the balance more in favour of such a scheme than any
other.